Aussie Electro Veteran Little Nobody To Retire From Music Performance

24 June 2015 | 12:14 pm | Staff Writer

The expat musician, DJ, and comics and fiction writer will play final shows in Sydney and Melbourne

Multi-talented expat musician, DJ and author Andrez Bergen — aka Little Nobody — has announced that he will be drawing his lengthy career behind the decks to a close with a pair of triumphant homeland farewell shows in Sydney and Melbourne this August.

The celebrated electronic luminary will perform in Sydney at Something Else @ Burdekin on Saturday, 15 August, returning to his birth city of Melbourne for his final-ever show as Little Nobody at Machine @ Aeon on Friday, 21 August. The dates coincide with the 20th anniversary of If? Records, which Bergen co-founded way back in 1995, and so afford the shows an added degree of significance as they close the door on one era and open the passage to another.

Bergen — who has also used monikers such as DJ Fodder and Funk Gadget during his career — is calling time on his stint in music after 20 years in the biz — a period that not only saw him found If? Records, but develop a live reputation a cut above your average disc-spinner. Over the course of his journey, Bergen has built a list of party conquests to his name including Hardware, Every Picture Tells A Story, Phreakin, Club Kooky, Frigid, Revolver, Filter and Teriyaki Anarki Saki, in cities from Detroit and London to Tokyo, where he's been based for most of the past 15 years, and New York, with co-conspirators such as Jeff Mills, Luke Vibert, Derrick May, Adam Beyer and Coldcut.

From here, the retiring DJ will focus on his fledgling literary career, having written for both traditional fiction and the comic-book medium on titles such as Tobacco-Stained Mountain GoatTales To AdmonishBullet Gal, One Hundred Years Of Vicissitude and Who Is Killing The Great Capes Of Heropa?.

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You can keep tabs on Bergen's movements from here out via his blog.